Posted
11:26 PM
by Gene
Of course
what's happened in the Gulf is awful -- not least for the loss of human life already, which we fear might take a back seat in news hacks' minds -- but we should remember as long as we must be automobile-mad and consumption-mad we'll have to power our vanity with that gooey sticky stuff from beneath the ground, and when we don't inspire environmental disasters we inspire jihadists.
And somehow we're not surprised
BP was involved, and what with this and
Libya (not to mention
the Texas City explosion, which comes to the fore now) it has a monopoly on ignominy.